hello @juergenb and thanks for reaching us, You have to use a lock system, we have our Lock Manual with the information you will need. Of course if you have question feel free to ask them. Cheers, Manuel

hello, fast reply, confirmation it's normal. The name used to select a font on macOS is its postscript font name, hence nothing to do here. On Windows you have to enumerate all fonts to find the right one and get the postscript name of its 'post' table. Cheers, Manuel

Hi @adlarch, thanks for reaching out us. With regard to your issue, I don't understand if it has been solved or not, since the very first post has been deleted and, after, a reply has been left by you in the thread. Can we delete the thread, or can we restore the initial post to give everybody in the community the chance to understand the scope of the second post? Cheers, Riccardo

@r_gigante Thanks. This is what I assumed.

Hi @wuzelwazel, thanks a lot for sharing your progresses on the Ptex Shader and for sharing your code. I've moved the thread to the more appropriate "General Programming & Plugin Discussions" hoping other developers could contribute to the discussion. Cheers, Riccardo

hello, thanks @PluginStudent for the answer here :) if (obj != nullptr) // If I'm checking for nullptr could I just use if(obj) as in Python? The correct way is to check against nullptr, that's a c++11 standard. if (obj) could lead to false positive and bugs. String is not the same thing as maxon::String. String is the classic API while maxon::String is the Maxon API. You can read more about that in the manual about strings Error handling is super eady to use, we got every thing to do so, you should definitely use it. Check Our manual about Error Handling Last but not least you can probably use our Url class to handle file or filename. Give it a look Cheers, Manuel

Hello, as Riccardo has pointed out, AdditionalIncludeDirectories has nothing to do with DLLs. It is used to define search paths for header files. See Additional include directories. It was never valid. Also, looking at the error, the plugin was installed into the C:/Program Files folder. In R21, there is no reason to install plugins there; one can install plugins at any location and just tell Cinema 4D the plugin path. best wishes, Sebastian

Hi Maxime, thanks a lot! Both are valid solutions for me. Very helpful. Cheers

Hi jhpark, thanks for reaching out us. Aside from the notes left by @blastframe - thanks dude for the remarks - I think it's worthy, thinking of a more generic scene, to mention the need BaseDocument::ExecutePasses() to be sure that everything is actually evaluated before querying the scene rather than the EventAdd() which serves a different scope. This function is responsible to execute the scene evaluation and, consequently to be sure that, moving from a frame to another, all the items in the scene reflect the changes imposed by the frame switch. The approach used by @blastframe actually operates on CTracks and key but, although this approach works fine for your specific case, when more evaluation dependencies are created in the scene you could easily end up in unexpected results. The code could then look like frames_count = 10 # [Set] frames counter for f in range(0, frames_count): doc.SetTime(c4d.BaseTime(f, doc.GetFps())) # evaluate the scene doc.ExecutePasses(None, True, True, True, c4d.BUILDFLAGS_NONE) obj = doc.SearchObject('Cube') # get object position x = int(obj.GetMg().off.x) y = int(obj.GetMg().off.y) z = int(obj.GetMg().off.z) # get object color r = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].x * 255) g = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].y * 255) b = int(obj[c4d.ID_BASEOBJECT_COLOR].z * 255) print("Frame = " + str(f) + ", (X,Y,Z) = " + str(x) + "," + str(y) + "," + str(z) + ", RGB = " + str(r) + "," + str(g) + "," + str(b))

Thank you @m_magalhaes! I needed to open the plugins.sln solution instead of the project file. I feel like I've learned something, but I'm not sure what

@rossc1 Thanks for the inputs, I will for sure add a note in the documentation regarding this issue. Just as a follow-up from the current status, it is confirmed and while there is a behavior change in our side due to the new licensing mechanism, the issue also comes from Visual Studio Code, reading directly raw string to detect a valid interpreter, and fail if something is not formated as it wants. However, we received the official confirmation from Visual Studio Code that they will not change their implementation, and not support custom interpreters. But we are still on it. Regarding your needs for an IDE, you can use Pycharm, the only pre-requires is to rename c4dpy to python, unfortunately, we can't officially recommend doing such things since newer OS (Catalina) prevent user changing content of an application package but @dskeith explained everything cleary in How to use c4dpy for Cinema4D R20 SP1. Cheers, Maxime.

@m_magalhaes I'll write it in your way Thank you very much. Cheers!

A little update on the node editor via Python ;) small demo: Node Graph Editor via C4D Python API Video I will share with the c4d py devs community when I'am done with this beast of a script.

I think we are talking past each other. You can of course build any project any way you like. An then make sure that your plugins link to the build result using the link options defined in projectdefinition.txt. But I think you want to include an already existing (non-plugin) project in the solution created by the Project Tool, right? And I think that is not possible. I guess you could add the project manually to the solution created by the Project Tool.

Thanks Maxime! In the mean time I will cycle through takes, AOVs and Frames manually to get the paths.

Thanks! I'll try that.

Thanks @s_bach This is very helpful. Best wishes.

I'm just going to go ahead and mark this as solved. Either using an empty Basecontainer or the set function solve the problem. Thank you for explaining!

@zipit said in How to handle C4D Unicode in Python scripting?: well, that API object names thing is a flaw of Python 2. So working as expected or not as expected is a bit a question of the point of view. If you got the string passed from any other source the problem would be the same. Right. The main thing is to understand the issue, and then to write the chapter in a way that explains what to watch out for. (I do wonder how third-party modules would do with a name string passed to them from a script that reads them from the API... well, another bridge to cross another day.) Python 3 clearly is superior in that respect, as there is no unicode class and all str objects are unicode (what they appear to be already in C4D, but with matching len, index, and slice capabilities). On a more productive note: I think that focusing in Unicode strings isn't really that important for Python stuff in c4d, since object names should be something you largely ignore as they are a unreliable source of identification and only are rarely important in other contexts. Hmm, I am not sure whether I would agree to that. Good naming is essential to find your way through complex scenes, and a good naming schema can be built in a way that is friendly to string search and comparison criteria, esp. if you can build your own scripts to perform the search and selection. I just point at the _L _R naming schema for joints that is common in C4D's docs. Of course, if your objects are all named Cube, Cube.1, Cube.2, Cube.3, then name-based identification may be unhelpful Anyway, I am not the person to judge that, as I am only teaching Python to interested users. What they do with it is their own decision; I just have to point out the crucial points so they can apply the code to their own concepts.